Scaletta Gang

The Scaletta Gang is an Italian-American criminal organization that is based in the River Row neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. The gang was formed in 1951 when Vito Scaletta moved to New Orleans from New York City, and Scaletta operated as a vassal of the Marcano crime family. In 1968, Sal Marcano decided to replace The Commission's "spy", Scaletta, with his own nephew Michael Grecco, having Grecco run River Row after Scaletta fell out of favor with the Marcanos. The gang took over River Row with the help of Lincoln Clay, who brought down Grecco and his racket bosses and gave control of the neighborhood to Scaletta. Ultimately, the Scaletta family would control much of central New Orleans under Clay, who fairly divided the city's ten districts among his underbosses, Cassandra, Thomas Burke, and Scaletta.